Fable 2 in late 2008 - Molyneux

Fable 2 will be released in "late 2008", Peter Molyneux told Eurogamer readers today in a wide-ranging LiveText interview.

When pressed to be more specific, he added: "Late 2008. Maybe when the leaves have a slight brownish tinge - but are still on the trees, if you see what I mean." Fable 2 is Lionhead's Xbox 360-exclusive follow-up to the critically acclaimed Xbox ARPG Fable.

Molyneux also dropped hints about what else the British developer - now Microsoft-owned - is working on. "We are working on a title now which is kind of a hybrid of Dimitri," he told Eurogamer readers.

"I am really, really pushing the powers-that-be to allow me to tell/show the world this new project. I know I am prone to say things like 'great', 'revolutionary' and 'ambitious', but this new project is absolutely great, revolutionary and ambitious!"

Other highlights of Molyneux's chat with Eurogamer readers:

The name of Lionhead's second project quite possibly begins with "Mi" - the rest got snipped by a buffer in our interview system and then he thought better of revealing it!

He's interested in developing simulation and God games for the DS, and said he would love to do Dungeon Keeper DS if EA gave him the rights back.

The game he most enjoyed this year - "mainly because of the environment and story" - was BioShock.

He would consider working on somebody else's property rather than original IP providing Lionhead was given "creative freedom to take the licence in any direction".

He says the Xbox 360 is the best console he's ever worked on. "I have to be diplomatic, but that is true."

He believes that within the next ten years a game will be considered "a major scientific breakthrough".